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HDTV Listings for February 24, 2010
Wed, 24/02/10 – 22:44 | No Comment
HDTV Listings for February 24, 2010

What we’re watching tonight: NBC (1080i) has Night 13 of Olympic Winter Games 2010 with Women’s Freestyle Skiing, Short Track speedskating and more at 8 p.m.

Bell, Telus, Rogers trial inter-carrier video calling
Wed, 24/02/10 – 22:28 | No Comment
Bell, Telus, Rogers trial inter-carrier video calling

Even as American carriers continue to resist it, a variety of Canada’s GSM networks support video calling on so-enabled 3G handsets — but currently, the problem is that you’re only able to video call other phones on the same network. Fortunately, Rogers, Bell, and Telus have been hard at work playing nice long enough to ensure that their respective video calling services play nice one another, and they’ve just announced the successful completion of inter-carrier trials

Sprint confirms WiMAX for NYC, San Francisco, others
Wed, 24/02/10 – 22:20 | No Comment
Sprint confirms WiMAX for NYC, San Francisco, others

Sprint on Wednesday announced plans for releasing its high-speed mobile broadband WiMAX network in new cities in 2010. Newly added are Denver, Kansas City and Minneapolis, in addition to the already announced plans for launches in New York, San Francisco, Washington (DC,) Boston and Houston later this year

Cablevision’s new ‘PC to TV Media Relay’ slings PC media to your cable box, fuzzy on the details
Wed, 24/02/10 – 22:17 | No Comment
Cablevision’s new ‘PC to TV Media Relay’ slings PC media to your cable box, fuzzy on the details

It’s been done before , and in many ways , but Cablevision’s new plan for slinging what’s on your PC to your TV might be one of the most interesting tries yet. Dubbed “PC to TV Media Relay,” the new service will let subscribers that get their broadband internet and cable TV from Cablevision load up a bit of software on their Windows PC (a Mac version is forthcoming) that pushes whatever is on the computer through to a dedicated channel on the cable box.

GoGear Muse refresh sports touchscreen, Songbird media player, HDMI output
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:55 | No Comment
GoGear Muse refresh sports touchscreen, Songbird media player, HDMI output

Looks like the Android-powered Connect isn’t the only bit of GoGear news coming out of the armed Philips compound as of late.

FCC proposes giving 500MHz spectrum to cell carriers
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:55 | No Comment
FCC proposes giving 500MHz spectrum to cell carriers

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski today proposed (PDF) a more detailed plan to address the feared spectrum shortage for cellular carriers. The approach would take as much as 500MHz of wireless space currently used by broadcasters and repurpose it for data networks. Those operators that agreed to drop spectrum would get a share of the proceeds as a financial incentive….

Sling Monitor 150 hits the FCC
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:33 | No Comment
Sling Monitor 150 hits the FCC

We caught our first glimpses of the Sling Monitor 150 placeshifting display at CES 2009, but it only got an official launch at this year’s show , and now it looks like it’s getting even closer to store shelves with an appearance at the FCC for some RF testing action.

djay 3.1 improves detection, cue points
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:20 | No Comment
djay 3.1 improves detection, cue points

algoriddim has released an update of djay, its DJ performance software. Version 3.1 makes several important upgrades, such as better beat and tempo detection able to more accurately identify music from genres like funk, hip-hop and jazz

FCC’s Genachowski previews broadband plan, demands half gigahertz of spectrum for the task
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:11 | No Comment
FCC’s Genachowski previews broadband plan, demands half gigahertz of spectrum for the task

Time’s running out for the FCC to present its National Broadband Plan to Congress next month, a set of sweeping regulatory changes geared at making broadband widely and readily available to every nook and cranny of the country — and as the day of reckoning draws near, chairman Julius Genachowski is starting to talk specifics about how the Plan’s going to look. At a speech hosted by the think tank New America Foundation today, Genachowski revealed a few key initiatives geared overall to reach the goal of reclaiming a whopping 500MHz of spectrum to apply toward wireless broadband data over the coming decade. A big part of that puzzle will be something called the Mobile Future Auction where existing spectrum owners ( ahem , TV broadcasters) could be given the opportunity to voluntarily — emphasis on “voluntarily” — sell off their airwaves in exchange for a portion of the auction proceeds ; it’s claimed that as much as $50 billion in value could be “unlocked” by more efficiently using some of this spectrum, where only about half is currently being used in even the most populous markets

Adobe outs Flash 10.1 Beta with Intel GMA 500 support
Wed, 24/02/10 – 21:00 | No Comment
Adobe outs Flash 10.1 Beta with Intel GMA 500 support

Adobe has released a Beta 3 version of Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms. Meant for developers to test new hardware, the build reportedly has support for Intel’s GMA 500 integrated graphics processors.